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PUBLICATIONS“Gender, Race, and Criminal Witchcraft: The Ideology behind The Sorceress of the Strand,” ELT: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 45:1 (January, 2002). 176-194.“L.T. Meade” and ‘”The Hammer of God” by G.K. Chesterton,’ entries in Companion to the British Short Story. New York: Facts on File (2006).Under review:“Charles Dickens’s ‘Hunted Down’ and the Failure of Physiognomy”“Delineating the Savage Within: Cultural Shifts and Empire in Arthur Conan Doyle and G.K. Chesterton”SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS“Dickens, Pen, and Poison: Weapons of Empire in the Shorter Fiction” Colloquium presentationat the National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar, Santa Cruz, CA (July 2004)“Complicating Race: Phantom Miscegenation in ‘Midnight in Beauchamp Row’” presentedat the Northeastern MLA, Boston, MA (March 2003)“Locating the Savage Within: The Exotic Meets the Domestic in G.K. Chesterton’s‘The Wrong Shape’” presented at the Twentieth-Century Literature conference, Louisville,KY (February 2003)“The Faceless Criminal: The Failure of Physiognomy in Charles Dickens ‘Hunted Down’”presented at the South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, GA (November 1999)“Constructing the Clues to Morality: Reading Unconventional Texts in The Portrait of DorianGray and ‘The Sign of Four’” presented at the Aphra Behn Society conference, New Haven,CT (October 1997)TEACHING EXPERIENCE (full responsibility for all courses)Duke University, University Writing Program, Durham, NCSenior Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2005)Rhetoric of Detective Fiction: The course concerns the development of detective fiction as adistinct genre during the nineteenth century. Students examine both shorter works by writers suchas Poe, Dickens, and Doyle as well as Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and detective fiction fromthe early twentieth century such as The Maltese Falcon. In addition, we address critical andtheoretical works surrounding this genre from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A writing-intensive course.Mellon Fellow (2003-2004)Narratives of Victorian Criminality: Students read fictional accounts of criminals, such as OliverTwist and stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe, in conjunction with critical,philosophical, and scientific works by writers such as Michel Foucault and Stephen Jay Gould,to explore the mechanism by which ideas about criminality arose and were disseminated duringthe nineteenth century. A writing-intensive course.

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The Rhetoric of Madness in Victorian Culture: The class examined texts, such as Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde and Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” thatportrayed the two sides of Victorian madness–the promise of freedom from social constraintsand the fear of unbridled irresponsibility. A writing-intensive course.Imperial Dreams, Imperial Nightmares: The course focused on Victorian narratives of empire,interweaving both fictional (Dracula and Kipling’s “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”) and non-fictional (Macaulay’s “A Minute on Indian Education” and “Stanley’s Account of Finding Livingstone”)texts to examine the social debate surrounding Britain’s status as empire. A writing-intensive course.Visiting Adjunct Professor (1999, 2002-2003)Investigating the Criminal in History, Fact, and FictionInvestigations into Detective FictionEssentials of ArgumentUniversity of North Carolina, Department of English, Teaching Fellow (1994-2001)Survey of Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist Literature (six sections, 1995-2001): This course,required for English majors, focused on the formal features of poetry, the short story, and the novelwithin the historical setting of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Organized around topics,such as “Progress” and “The Woman Question,” the course examined how these texts participated insocial debate and analyzed the cultural role played by art.Introduction to Fiction (2000)Writing as Argument (1994-2001)Writing Across the Curriculum (1995-2001)PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES–DUKE UNIVERSITYFOCUS Program Faculty Member, taught in interdisciplinary cluster of courses developed forfirst-year students entitled “The Power of Ideas” (Fall 2004)Course Goals Committee (Fall 2004)Reflexive Practices Group: Assignment Design (Fall 2004) ClassroomPrinciples and Practices Seminar (August 4-22, 2003) Annual SummerRetreat: Pedagogy Workshop (August, 2002-2004) Assessment ProjectScorer (May 2003)“Designing Program Assessment Tools,” Workshop, Duke University (March 2002)OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SELECTED)Review of Proposal for Broadview Press edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles (2004)Contributor to “Victoria List” on-line listserv (1999-present)Member of MLA (1995-present)“Manorial Malice: Detective Fiction and the English Country Estate” presented at the EnglishSpeaking Union meeting, Chapel Hill, NC (March, 2000)Peer Teaching Review Committee, University of North Carolina (1999-2000)